The Simon Sisters (Lucy and Carly)

The Simon Sisters were Carly Simon and Lucy Simon, who as a duo made a few obscure folky albums in the 1960s, predating Carly Simon's rise to fame as a star singer/songwriter. In the mid-'60s they recorded a couple of albums for Kapp in a pleasing if hardly innovative pop-flavored folk style, with tight coffeehouse harmonies in the manner of Peter, Paul & Mary and early Simon & Garfunkel. One of those recordings, "Winken, Blinken and Nod," was a small hit single, and although they did write some original material, much of their recorded repertoire consisted of covers of contem...